Green Arrow (CW)

^Well thats sounds good but the showing is still lacking the main bad guy that will make it or break it. Without someone for Arrow to square off with, without a nemesis of great evil to go up against our hero will just be fighting goon of the week and that just wont cut it. Lets hope more is in store.

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Are China White, Deadshot, and Deathstroke only going one off characters? I had figured either one of, or all of them would be recurring bad guys.

In an upcoming episode, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) will tangle with the Royal Flush Gang.

Zap2it has exclusively learned that Kyle Schmid, best known for his work on "Being Human" and "Blood Ties," has been cast as Kyle Reston or "Ace."

The Royal Flush Gang, of course, is a band of card-playing villains, which will first appear in episode 106, titled "Legacies." Details are being kept under wraps, but sources say that we'll see a major bank robbery, with a crowd of hostages eventually leaving the building... wearing playing card masks.

Me neither. But it helps that executive producer Marc Guggenheim wrote for DC before this. That may be a first for a live action show. We had comic writers write a few episodes, but never in such important producing role from its inception.

I am happy in particular with the Royal Flush Gang. Its such a simple concept in terms of playing card theme for criminals. Anyone who never heard of the comic characters will get it. Even the name, being a gang is very modern and timeless sounding.

Me neither. But it helps that executive producer Marc Guggenheim wrote for DC before this. That may be a first for a live action show. We had comic writers write a few episodes, but never in such important producing role from its inception.

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In addition to writing and/or co-writing four episodes, Geoff Johns was heavily involved on Blade: The Series.

I am happy in particular with the Royal Flush Gang. Its such a simple concept in terms of playing card theme for criminals. Anyone who never heard of the comic characters will get it. Even the name, being a gang is very modern and timeless sounding.

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I guarantee there will be people unfamiliar with the characters that will think it's a rip on the end of Batman Begins and the "calling card"

Fans of DC Entertainment and The CW network's last big superhero TV show have already acclimated themselves to the adventures of "Smallville" continuing on their tablets thanks to the digital-first, canonical "Season 11" comic updating each week. But starting this Fall, the practice will also extend to the latest team-up between
comic publisher and TV network.

CBR News has exclusive first word that in October, DC will launch a brand-new "Arrow" digital comic series which will tie into the new CW show reinventing DC Comics superhero Green Arrow. The "Arrow" comic series debuts on DC's comiXology-powered app on October 10, the same
day that the series' pilot episode bows in prime time, and it will be written by executive producers, showrunners and comic scribes Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg with art starting out under the brush of legendary artist Mike Grell before Sergio Sandoval and Jorge Jimenez take over interior duties on subsequent issues. The series will sell at $0.99 a chapter online, while monthly print editions
collecting several installments will start on November 28 for $3.99.

If there's even a remote chance that I'll have to subscribe to the digital comic to get the whole story of what's going on in the show, then I may as well not even invest any time in watching it at all.